In the 5th Distinguished Law Lecture Series, organised by the Department of Law and Human Rights of the University of Asia Pacific, Dr. Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed, the Honourable Judge at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, delivered a lecture on the issue of judicial review in reference to a reported case of Md. Abdul Hakim v Government of Bangladesh and others 34 BLD (HCD) 129. In this case, as it was evident in Dr. Justice Ahmed's lecture, the court explored the extent of judicial reviewability of actions and decisions of private bodies operating in the public domain.

A complex yet sensitive issue concerning the suitability of the Supreme Court (SC) as the guardian of the Constitution of Bangladesh,

ON the day of 23rd of May 2016, when most people were returning to their work stations after a long weekend, obscured from this frenzied rush is Iqbal (pseudonym), who works as a driver in Dhaka, cries helplessly on hearing that Molly (pseudonym) his 8 years old daughter, has been brutally raped in their home in Madaripur. The perpetrator, Shamol (pseudonym), is approximately 18 years old.

The process of law reform is notorious for its snail's pace in Bangladesh. But recently, after reading the book Bangladeshe Ainer Sanskar O Ain (2016) by one of our leading legal academics Professor Shah Alam, a question popped into my mind: where is the snail of reform now? Is it alive or in a coma?

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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . .until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

This week Your Advocate is Barrister Omar Khan Joy, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He is the head of the chambers of a

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Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice (CSGJ) of the Liberation War Museum organised a month-long certificate course

MR. JABBAR, a father of two residing in Kallyanpur, received an eerie phone call last night. In a muffled voice, the man from the other

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I am a university student in Bangladesh. For a long time now, I have been receiving unwanted friend requests and a large number of

MOHIT”- is the son (five years) of a divorced couple Atiq and Rehana. Both of them remarried and demanded the custody of Mohit

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